But it got stuck in the up position. So he couldn’t get it back down to land properly and get the problem fixed. With no landing gear in the nose, any attempt at landing suddenly became pretty dangerous.

So the ship put out a stool with a really big pillow on it, and he had land the aircraft so the nose rested perfectly on the padded stool.

That’s no small feat of piloting skill when you can’t actually see what’s happening below the aircraft.

The entire thing was captured on video and has been declassified so you can watch it here.